84 A TREATISE ON HORSE-BREEDING. 



of the two French horses imported to Ohio in 

 1851, was taken to Illinois, and in 1858 was sold 

 to E. Dillon & Co. of Normal. This horse soon 

 attained great notoriety, the Messrs. Dillon 

 showing him and his get at many State and 

 County fairs as Norman horses; and this name 

 soon became quite generally applied to them 

 in Illinois and the adjoining States. From 1868 

 down to the present time the importations of 

 these horses have been very numerous, and im- 

 porters and breeders have used various names 

 by which to designate them; some calling them 

 Percherons, some Normans, and others combin- 

 ing the two names, some placing the Percheron 

 first and others beginning with the Norman. 



But a better understanding of the subject has 

 resulted in ending these controversies; it hav- 

 ing become generally understood in this coun- 

 try that France, like Great Britain, has several 

 more or less distinct breeds of draft horses, to 

 each of which a separate and distinctive name 

 is attached, and each having a separate local- 

 ity in France wherein it was mainly bred, as 

 is the case with the various breeds of England 

 and Scotland. The organization of the Societe 

 Hippique Percheronne of France in July, 1883, 

 and the consequent publication of a stud book 

 in that country for the Percheron breed, has 

 done much to enlighten the people of this 

 country upon the subject, and still further 



